Troilus and Criseyde Quotes

“Thus in this heaven he took his delight And smothered her with kisses upon kisses Till gradually he came to know where bliss is.”
― Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde

“the harm that’s in the world now as often comes through folly as through malice.”
― Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Cressida

“Woe to him who is alone, since, if he falls, he has no help to rise.”
― Ecclesiastes 4:10, Troilus and Cressida

“And after winter folweth grene May.”
― Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde

“Go litel bok, go, litel myn tragedye,
Ther God thi makere yet, er that he dye,
So sende myght to make in som comedye!
But litel book, no makyng thow n'envie,
But subgit be to alle poesye;
And kis the steppes where as thow seest pace
Virgile, Ovide, Omer, Lucan, and Stace.”
― Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde

“Go, litel bok, go, litel myn tragedye,”
― Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde

“For thus men seyth, "That on thenketh the beere,
But al another thenketh his ledere.”
― Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde

“Men may the wise atrenne, and naught atrede.”
― Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde

“The very eyeballs in your skull look dead.”
― Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde

“Ne nevere mo ne lakked hire pite;
Tendre-herted, slydynge of corage;
But trewely, I kan nat telle hire age.”
― Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde

“And of youre herte up casteth the visage
To thilke God that after his ymage
Yow made, and thynketh al nys but a faire
This world, that passeth soone as floures faire”
― Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde

“Not knowing, in his misery, for the nonce,
What he was doing, he rushed away at once”
― Chaucer Geoffry Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde